Date: Sun, 16 Jul 95 22:29:20 MDT From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) To: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl (Wilko Bulte) Cc: FreeBSD-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ESDI install now succeeded Message-ID: <9507170429.AA18334@cs.weber.edu> In-Reply-To: <199507111735.TAA00152@yedi.iaf.nl> from "Wilko Bulte" at Jul 11, 95 07:35:46 pm
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> Using a variant of the setup of Steve Piette I managed to get 205Snap installed > on a Micropolis 1558 and a WD1007 controller: > > W8 out (Steve had 'm in) > W14 in (disable translation) > > I used WDFMT.EXE from www.wdc.com to format the drive with 15 heads, 1224 cyls > and 35 sect/track (Steve used 36). > > bad144, disklabel and friends were now happily doing their job. > > It looks like we need a section 'ESDI installations' in the FreeBSD handbook. > I'm willing to write that as soon as I understand what is going on exactly. > > How are people using non-WD1007 adapters doing? E.g. using an Adaptec 2322 ? We got the WD1007 install running at Weber before I left, too. One of the guys there is supposed to take the controller out and scan it for a GIF for me. 8-). I also had to have 8 in, 14 out and run wdfmt.exe (which is in the self extracting archive wdfmtp.exe on that site, BTW). Same geometry that you had. I had a problem with the number of cylinders causing the BIOS to complain on the boot, so I configured drive type 48 for 1024 cylinders to shut it up. The install detected this, and robbed me of a little over 20% of my disk space. Probably needed to go into the menu that lets you change the geometry and tell it "1224" (the guy I worked on it with promised to redo the install trying that and let me know). Anyway, it's a bitch, but it can be done. Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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